Learning Procedure.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 March 1939, Page 4

Learning Procedure.

A class of evening students from Wairarapa College attended last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council to obtain first-hand information as to procedure adopted in the conduct of council business. The Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, explained various matters to the students, who were later entertained at supper. Work On Homer Tunnel.

The possibility’of continuing work on the driving of the Homer tunnel heading during the winter will be investigated by the Minister 'of Public Works (Mr Semple) when he visits the Homer Saddle. The Minister said in Dunedin on his arrival that if it were found possible to keep the work going during the winter with safety, progress could be expedited to a great extent.' Drowned in Hot Pool.

s An 18-months-old Maori child, Hona Hetekia Waaka, was drowned by falling into a hot pool in Whakarewarewa late on Monday afternodn. The mother of the child left it playing in the house while she was absent for about a quarter of an hour, and on her return found the child had disappeared. Upon making a search she found the child had failed into a pool near the house. The child was dead when discovered. Chinese Posters.

There is on display in a shop window in Queen Street a number of propaganda posters dealing with the war in China. Added interest is lent to the display by the fact that an ex-pupil of the Masterton West School, Louis Gar Sun, is on the Chinese propaganda staff, and was responsible for forwarding the posters to Masterton. Louis Gar Sun, who was four years at the West School, was noted at school for his artistic drawing and doubtless some of the Chinese posters which are being shown in many countries, are his work.

Ceremony of Remembrance. A dawn ceremony of remembrance, which .ex-soldiers who were in Sydney last year stated was the most impres-’ sive ceremony they had ever attended, will be the principal of the Anzac Day celebrations in Auckland this year. The ceremony has been arranged by the Australian Imperial Force Ex-Service-men’s Association with the co-opeia-tion of the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association and will be held at the Cenotaph in the Domain. The Gov-ernor-General, Lord Galway, will lead the parade and will recite the Anzac Dedication. The Prime Minister, Mr Savage, has also promised to attend. Cricket Impressions.

His cricketing experience in the Dominion had been a happy one, said Sii Julien Cahn before sailing by the Niagara yesterday. The team, he said, found good wickets everywhere, though many of the outfields, including Auckland, were_ below standard because of football being played on them in the winter. The finest green was in Dunedin and the best wicket at Eden Park. He considered J. L. Kerr and G. L. Weir the finest batsmen his side played against. Though there were useful bowlers, no one was outstanding. His general impression was that the standard of play throughout New Zealand was equal to that when his team met a New Zealand side in England in 1937. He added that the standard of schoolboy cricket showed promise for the future of the game.

The maid had just answered the front door bell. "It was two ladies., the girl explained to her employer, "but I said that you were not at home." "And what did they say?" "One said to the other, 'Friday is not such an unlucky day .after all’.”